Some school are experimenting with segregated classrooms, but critics say the separation can have a negative effect on how kids learn about gender.
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September 26, 2011

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An already heated debate over single-sex education is boiling over. Many public schools have been experimenting with putting boys and girls in separate classrooms for part of the day, or using single-sex academies as a low-cost way to try and raise academic performance. But a new study published in Science magazine finds no solid evidence that such methods work — and offers evidence that single-sex education is more likely to make children sexist, by increasing gender stereotyping and legitimizing institutional sexism. Are boys- and girls-only classrooms counter-productive?

Come on. This study is bogus:Plenty of studies have already suggested that girls do worse when outnumbered by boys in the classroom, says Hank Campbell at Science 2.0. These psychologists are simply dismissing that body of evidence, and then supporting their claim of sexism by citing a mere "few weeks watching preschoolers." It sounds like they're basing their argument "on philosophical rather than scientific grounds.""Are single-sex schools better for education"